"Game of Thrones" may have concluded its eight-season run almost three years ago but the show is gearing up to return this August with an upcoming spinoff called "House of the Dragon." The 10-episode prequel series, which will also premiere on HBO, travels back in time — almost two centuries before the events of "Game of Thrones" — and chronicles the Dance of the Dragons, a brutal civil war fought between rival groups within House Targaryen.
"House of the Dragon" is based on George R.R. Martin's 2018 fantasy novel "Fire & Blood" from his "A Song of Ice and Fire" series. The novel follows multiple generations of the Targaryen family, including the "Conquering Aegon (Daenerys Targaryen's greatest-grandfather-uncle) and his sister-wives, Visenya and Rhaenys, a Holy Blond Trinity of fantasy archetypes: one steady ruler, one imperial warrior, one dreamy explorer," explained TV critic Darren Franich's in his review for Entertainment Weekly.
